fluffy is a Django-based web application that allows you to upload arbitrary files to the web. Once you upload the files, you get a link to the file which you can share.
The reference instance of fluffy is online at fluffy.cc. You can also run your own!
- fluffy isn't social. Files are given a long, random (unguessable) name. There's no upload feed or list of files.
- fluffy isn't intrusive. Your files aren't resized, compressed, stripped, or modified in any way.
- fluffy isn't annoying. A simple, modern page for uploading your files. No ads, no memes, and no animated cat GIFs.
fluffy only handles uploading and storing your files. There's no database, and it's up to you to figure out how you serve the uploaded files. Once fluffy stores a file, it forgets about it.
This not only makes the code simple, but also makes maintenance easy. If you wish to stop accepting uploads, you can easily throw the existing uploads on any web server to ensure their continued availability.
This does make some features hard or impossible to implement, however, so if you want to do anything post-upload at the application level, fluffy probably isn't for you.
fluffy hands off uploaded files to a storage backend, which is responsible for saving the file. The following backends are currently available:
- File. Storage on the local filesystem. You can easily serve these with any web server.
- Amazon S3. Storage on Amazon S3. You can serve these with S3 static websites or with CloudFront (if you want a CDN).
- Debug. Prints information about uploaded files to
stdout. Not useful in production environments, but helpful when debugging upload problems.
Writing a storage backend is dead simple and requires you to implement only a single method. The current backends are all less than 30 lines of code.
fluffy won't serve your files, period. It's up to you to figure this part out. Depending on which backend you use, you may get it easily. For example, Amazon S3 makes it easy to serve uploaded files via the web.
To host your own copy of fluffy, clone the git repo. Copy settings.py.tmpl to
settings.py and adjust it to your needs, being sure to uncomment whichever
storage backend you wish to use. There's no database, so setup is very simple.
Once you've adjusted the configuration, you can deploy fluffy the way you deploy any Django app. fluffy is tested with Python versions 2.7 and 3.3, and is also probably compatible with other versions.
Since "fluffy.cc" is just one instance of fluffy, you'll probably want to change the page headers to feature your own site.
Contributions to fluffy are welcome! Send your pull requests or file an issue. Thanks for the help!
fluffy is copyright © 2014 Chris Kuehl, Lynn Tsai, with all original code released under an MIT license. Other code, such as included libraries or Django starter code, is under its original license. See LICENSE for full details.
fluffy uses awesome icon sets developed by FatCow and Everaldo Coelho.